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Offline NEFaurora

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1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« on: July 04, 2011, 04:50:23 PM »

1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..

I restored my '66 Driver's side Metal air vent assembly last year, and thought that the bottom of it was bent out-so I bent it back up flush with the bottom... Now I am not so sure if it came that way.  Just need a few pics to confirm if the bottom lid "sticks" out a 1/3 of the way from the bottom, or if the bottom lid or "floor" of it is supposed to fit flush with the bottom.  I definately cannot remember on this one..

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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2011, 10:13:58 PM »
This is the best pic I have of my 66 airvent...

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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2011, 12:14:06 AM »


Holy Cow!

It looks like the bottom is peculiarly bent (Top Right view in above photo)... I guess that that bend is factory!!! This definately beckons more research.. Any one got any more pics of the open bent area??

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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2011, 03:08:54 AM »
The bend is typical - don't know if I've every thought if it as something that needed a picture of ;)
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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2011, 07:26:47 AM »
Tony,
Here's a pic of mine before I restored it. No bend.
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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2011, 10:11:58 PM »
The original one in my dad's '66 (bought it in '68, kept it ever since) has that bend.  I always assumed something happened to it, or maybe it was bent somehow.  It's definitely original and has never been removed from the car.
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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2011, 02:43:08 AM »


It looks like I'll be bending it back...!!! lol....

Thanks for the pic Dave..

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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2011, 02:44:53 AM »

Yeah, I mean if you really look at it, At first glance, It really looks like someone has "messed" with it.  Who knew that it came that way...lol...

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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2011, 08:25:14 AM »
Ford also used a different style driver side vent in 1966. I was looking at a friends California F/B and noticed that it was not like my Dearborn F/B.

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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2011, 09:14:49 AM »
Hopefully this isn't too far off topic, but why do reproduction vents have that plastic cover on the bottom side?  I've seen a lot more original vents that were missing the cover than ones that had it...why is that? 
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Re: 1966 Driver's side Metal air-vent Pic requested..
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2011, 10:37:31 AM »
'65-early '66 have the plastic bottom and then starting sometime in '66, was changed to all metal.  In either '67 or '68 they were changed to all plastic.
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